Niek Strohmaier joined the department of business studies at Leiden Law School in early 2016 to commence his PhD research on the cross-section of law and psychology, specifically on the topic of biases in financial and legal judgments in the context of insolvency. Before coming to Leiden University, Niek Strohmaier completed his Bachelor and Master (cum laude) degrees in psychology at Utrecht University and he worked in the headhunt industry in England for two years.